ask a biosafety expert service at absa 2013
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A description of DIYbio.org's Ask a Biosafety Expert (ABE) service, as it was presented at the annual ABSA meeting in Kansas City on October 23, 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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Jason BobeCo-founder, [email protected]:@jasonbobe
October 23, 2013
Ask a Biosafety Expert:User-driven advisory service for the Do-It-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) Community
ABSA Annual MeetingKansas City, MO
Photo credit: Fred Turner, 2013 UK Young Engineer of the Year
New Teen Hobby: DIY DNA labs
Photo credit: Fred Turner, 2013 UK Young Engineer of the Year
New Teen Hobby: DIY DNA labs
Dawn of the Biohackers. Discover Magazine. Oct 5, 2011. Photo by Grant Delin
Vibrant Hobby Communities
ROCKETRY
Amateur Saturn V launch in MDApril 25, 2009
PERSONALCOMPUTING
Hanny’s Voorwerp discovered August 13, 2007
ASTRONOMY
Homebrew Computer ClubSeptember 1976
CHEMISTRY
Lab Technician Set for Girlsc. 1958
Credits: Chemical Heritage Foundation; DigiBarn Computer Museum; Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Dick Stafford, RocketryPlanet.com.
Biology is Next: Global DIYbio Community
NORTH AMERICAAtlantaBaltimoreBostonBrooklynCambridgeCarlsbadChicagoHoustonLos AngelesNashvilleNew York CityOaklandPortlandSan DiegoSan FranciscoSeattleSunnyvaleTorontoVancouverVictoria
EUROPEBudapestCopenhagenCorkEindhovenGrazGroningenKievLausanneLondonManchesterMunichNamurThe HagueParisPragueSwitzerland
ASIASingaporeTel-Aviv
OCEANIAAucklandSydney
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Scope of Activities
Personal BioMonitoring
Exploratory Exploratory BiologyBiology
Constructive Constructive BiologyBiology
Environmental Sensing
Re-imaginingLaboratory Devices
GeneticEngineering
Home Workshops
1.Garage: cancer biotech start-up
2.Closet: Personal genotyping facility
3.Kitchen: yogurt engineered to sense melamine (toxin)
4.Dorm: R&D lab for low-cost PCR machine
Community Labs Genspace (Brooklyn, NY)
NYTimes. December 19, 2010. Photo Michael Nagle
http://biocuriosity.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/img_0551.jpg?w=630
http://biocuriosity.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/welcome-to-biocurious-sign.jpg?w=630
Community Labs BioCurious (Sunnyvale, CA)
Biocurious Project: BioPrinter
http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/view_body_embed/public/images/bioprinter_0.jpg?itok=ZkO-8Tay
http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/view_body_embed/public/images/biocurious.jpg?itok=CAGwqHG9
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-BioPrinter/
Innovation Engine: Small Start-Ups CreatingLow-Cost Kits & Devices --> Crowdsourcing $$$
Open GelBox 2.0 Microbial Fuel Cell OpenPCR
LavaAmpDremelfuge
iGEM: International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition
• 3200 active members• 215 teams & 200 labs• Sections
– High school– Undergraduate– Overgraduate– DIY / Community Lab
section planned for 2014
http://2012.igem.org/wiki/images/6/65/Biobrick_trophy.jpg
http://www.flickr.com//photos/igemhq/sets/72157625225590751/show/
Ask a Biosafety Expert
Outreach, education, and good, practical biosafety advicehttp://ask.diybio.org
Some of the questions so far…
How can I tell if the bacteria that
I’m growing on agar plates in my
room are toxic?
How should I dispose of my
bacterial plates if I don’t have
access to an autoclave?
How can I make bioart pieces with
embedded non-pathogenic
bacteria safe to sell to the public?
Real Opportunities for Biosafety Professionals
• Movement is growing rapidly, but is still relatively small
• An opportunity to build in safety culture from the earliest stages
• Challenging questions, new technology, new contexts, new types of clients, open access resources
Call for Volunteersplease join our expert advisory board
•Required training and experience– All levels
– RBP and CBSP highly desirable
– Different roles for different levels of training, experience, certification
– Need diverse mix of domain expertise
•Minimum volunteer commitments – respond to 1 question per month
– Monthly 1 hour conference call
– ~5 hours per month
•About the Organization– DIYbio.org is nonprofit corporation
– ABE is a free educational service
– Insured
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BIG THANKS TO OUR CURRENT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSMolly Stitt-Fischer, Ph.D., CPH.
Ted Myatt, Sc.D., RBP. J. Craig Reed, Ph.D., RBP.
Special thanks to Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Synthetic Biology Project, Dave
Rejeski and Todd Kuiken.
Email: [email protected]: @jasonbobe